Monday, Oct. 15, 1934
Born. To Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, daughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz; a daughter, Sonya, Toscanini's third grandchild; in Milan, Italy.
Born. To Mrs. Rosa Latorra, 44; a daughter, Christina Mary, her 20th child (TIME, June 18) ; in Chicago. Said Father Michael Latorra: "We want 22."
Engaged. William Curtis Bok, 36, Philadelphia lawyer, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, son of the late great Edward William Bok, grandson of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; and Nellie Lee Holt, head of the religious education department, Stephens College for Women, Columbia, Mo.
Married. Sarah Hammond Palfrey, 22, tennis player, national women's doubles champion (with Helen Jacobs); and Marshal Fabyan Jr., 23, Boston banker; in Sharon, Mass.
Married. Charles Gary Rumsey, 23, aviator son of Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, founder of the Junior League; and Mary Maloney, 23, clerk in the Oyster Bay, Long Island, Welfare Department; in Manhattan.
Married. Cecil Calvert Smith, 30, 10-goal member of the West polo team; and Mary Mulford Miller, 20. Long Island socialite; in Wading River, Long Island, N. Y. Married. Frank Aiken, Irish Free State Minister for Defense, "only bachelor in the de Valera Cabinet''; and Maud Davin, director of the Dublin Municipal School of Music; in Dublin.
Marriage Revealed. Artur Rodzinski, 40, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Halina Lilpop Wieniawski; in Warsaw; in July.
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis (Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics); from Thomas J. Lewis, 15 years her husband, twelve years manager of the wholesale division of Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; in Augusta, Me. Said Canadian-born Mrs. Lewis, who owns 20 beauty parlors throughout the land, races a string of horses: "My pride in the business, my idealism, caused the trouble between us. ... I found I was out on a limb, so I had to cut the limb off, do you see?"
Divorced. Ruth Chatterton, 40, cinemactress (Madame X, Journal of a Crime, Female, Lily Turner); from George Brent, 30, cinemactor (42nd Street, Lily Turner), her second husband; in Los Angeles. Charge: she lost twelve pounds the last week of her married life.
Divorced. Catherine Kresge, Baroness Wijk; from Baron Carl Carlson Wijk; in Detroit. Charges: Baron Wijk was "cold, sullen, morose, habitually indulged in gross and objectionable vulgarity."
Died. Elizabeth Dwight McDonald, 50, head of the primary department of Mrs. Roosevelt's Todhunter School, teacher of Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall and Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall; in Manhattan.
Died. Sir Ernest Burford Horlick, 54, Lord of the Manor of Cowley, chairman of Horlick's Malted Milk Co., Ltd. of London, Wartime R. F. C. captain; after brief illness; in Paris.
Died. Charles Pierre (real name Pierre Casalasco), 55, Corsican, hotel operator, president of Manhattan's Hotel Pierre; of abdominal infection following appendectomy; in Manhattan.
Died. Valerian ("Val") O'Farrell, 58, private detective; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. He worked on such famed Manhattan cases as the shooting of Architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw, was counsel for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who was electrocuted for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. His last job: investigator for Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt who is suing in a Manhattan Supreme Court for return of her daughter, Gloria.
Died. Franklin Simon, 69, founder of Franklin Simon & Co. big Manhattan department store; of uremic poisoning; in Purchase, N. Y. He was one of the first Manhattan merchants to guess that Fifth Avenue above 34th street would be a fashionable shopping district, to offer Paris styles at comparatively low prices. Said the New York Times: "One thought . . . forces itself to the front of the mind in surveying the rise of a business like that built by Mr. Simon. It would have been impossible if he had been hampered at every step by government regulation and meddlesomeness. What need of imposing a 'code' upon a man like him? He was his own code--always one of honor and humanity."
Died. Cyrus De Vry, 75, director for 31 years of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.
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